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HOW ID CARDS WILL BE INTRODUCED

What follows is the kind of letter, which may need to be produced to introduce people to their ID Cards when and if the government gets to launch such an initiative. Hopefully the growing campaign against the Government plans for ID Cards will bring them to their senses and prevent this from happening to us. The date I have chosen for the card issue is fiction. The exact date ID Cards will be launched is not yet known, but it could well happen in the next five to ten years. While this reads like science fiction cyberpunk, the technology for such a level of inspection already exists, and everything that is mentioned here, including DNA data, and Satellite Surveillance is under serious consideration for inclusion on ID Cards for all British Citizens. The details on the card given here are my own; though I have for obvious reasons used a made up National Insurance Number and the bank account details are also a fabrication. Lord Portland is not a real person, but someone of his nature will be given such a position of power as he has here. Everything else is very much impending reality and possible fact.

INTRODUCING YOUR NEW ID CARD.

Dear Arthur Chappell 4261846442.

The enclosed envelope contains your new Government Issue Identity Card, which also serves as your passport. As of January 1st 2011 ownership and carrying of the card at all times will become mandatory for all adult UK citizens. The forms you filled in, and the photographs, fingerprints, blood samples and retinal scans you recently had to have taken have provided us with the basic information which your card contains.

Your personal and unique card tells us the following;

NAME – ARTHUR PETER CHAPPELL ID CARD NUMBER - 4261846442.

NATIONAL INSURANCE NUMBER – BX 9765 09 G

DATE OF BIRTH – 9^TH FEBRUARY 1962

ADDRESS – 64, ARBORY AVENUE. MOSTON. MANCHESTER M40 5HJ

GENDER – MALE. ETHNIC STATUS – WHITE (CAUCASIAN)

MARITAL STATUS – SINGLE CRIMINAL RECORD – NONE. RELIGION – ATHEIST (SECULAR HUMANIST)

VEHICLE LICENSES – NONE. VEHICLE LICENSE ENDORSEMENTS - N/A

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT STATUS – WRITER.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT – (AS IN CARD FILED CURRICULUM VITAE SUPPLIED BY ARTHUR PETER CHAPPELL)

EDUCATION STATUS – B. A. (HONS.) HUMANITIES (LIT/PHIL)

BLOOD TYPE – A. HEIGHT – FIVE FOOT NINE.

EYES – BROWN. HAIR – DARK BROWN (RECEEDING)

DISTINGUISHING MARKS – SCAR ON LEFT HAND SIDE OF FACE.

FAMILY DOCTOR – DR. FALLON. – ROCHDALE ROAD SURGERY.

NEXT OF KIN – ALWYN CHAPPELL (MOTHER).

CURRENT BANK ACCOUNTS – BARCLAYS 66-9715-88 MASTERCARD - 9876 5433 3421 9879

PASSPORT STATUS – ACTIVE.

Your card contains a current passport photo of you. If your appearance should change dramatically due to an accident or plastic, cosmetic surgery, you must change your card details immediately through our offices. Your card will expire at midnight on December 31^st 2020 and require replacement for January 1^st 2021.

Your card contains your retinal image, your fingerprints and your DNA signature.

WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO SEE YOUR CARD?

The police, customs officials, business managers and a number of civilian tradesmen have the authority to inspect your card at any time you are in their presence. There are a number of officially designated Government employed Card Inspectors too. Many wear distinctive blue uniforms. Others are in plain clothes. If they have the right to ask to see your card they will show you their blue Card Inspection Warrant Pass. (CIWP) This resembles an ID Card, but it is larger. A number of shopkeepers, bar workers, security officials and business representatives also have the right to inspect your card.

Failure or refusal to produce your card for inspection to any official licensed card inspector is a criminal offence. Not having your card about your person could result in your arrest. Fines or imprisonment could follow. If your card is lost, stolen, or malfunctioning, you must alert the appropriate authorities immediately. A list of contact points for this is enclosed in a separate leaflet.

In the event that you are taking part in some sporting activity, such as swimming, your card must be kept with your ordinary clothes in a safe, secure place, and you must be able to go to that place and produce your ID Card in the company of any card inspector immediately upon his or her request.

In the event that you travel abroad, you must take your card about on your person at all times. While most other European Countries do not yet expect their citizens to bear ID Cards, British law states that you must have yours on you at all times. Some British Card inspectors operate abroad in co-operative nation states with the authorisation to extradite any British Citizen not bearing his or her card about their person. This will help to protect British people abroad by monitoring the behaviour of potential or actual drunken louts and football hooligans.

HOW CARD INSPECTION WORKS

Card inspection may involve a number of different stages. Looking at your photograph, and comparing it to your own physical appearance will satisfy some inspectors. Other Inspectors may run a more thorough check. They may take your card and run it through an electronic ID Card reader. (IDCR). This resembles a portable Chip & Pin credit card reader, and it works on a similar principle. The IDCR can monitor a great deal of information. It will register an official record of the card being inspected. It will tell the Card Inspector the exact date and time (GMT) of your last card inspection. It will enable the Card Inspector to text in any information he wishes about you. He may for example, record that you are a potential witness to a traffic accident, or to someone else refusing to show him or her an ID Card. The data logged through your card will be stored on the Central Identity Register. (CIR). This will give the authorities a comprehensive account of your wherabouts and activities at all times. All data will be stored indefinitely.

An IDCR may also reveal some or all of the information about you from your file on the CIR. A traffic Warden may wish to check whether an illegally parked motorist has any other parking offences recorded. A bar security official may wish to check whether someone has been expelled from any other drinking establishments recently and the CIR data will help him to decide whether or not that person should be allowed into the establishment he is in charge of. This will of course ensure that you can drink in the bar with less concern about loutish or unruly drunken behaviour.

Some card inspectors also have portable retinal scan readers, which can read your retina and compare it to the retinal image stored on your card. The reading is painless and will not in any way affect your eyesight. Readings from Retinal Scanners can be fed into IDCR documentation. The use of such a scan will help to make forged ID Card manufacture virtually impossible.

Card Inspectors must give you back your ID card upon completion of any given inspection.

Inspectors are specially trained to conduct inspections quickly, especially in dealing with large crowds and long queues of people. Please do not lose patience with them. They are working for your protection. Card Inspectors will log insolence and intolerant responses from Card Carrie